Intellectually challenging avant garde art
The museum of modern art on the top two floors of the Pompidou is so avant garde, on the cutting edge, with many fantastic new age electronic/art exhibits showing modern man as alienated figure (an old topic) in new electronic media settings. For example, there are kinesthetic sculptures that move on pulleys, and electronic devices that beam disturbing surrealistic signals, plus a host of great modern art by the classicists of modern art--Kandinsky, Picasso, Miro, Mondrian, Chagall, et al. There is one exhibit, called La Mariee (the maried woman) of a bride, with lacquered dress, and a head of a skeleton, showing an exhausted old woman whose demands as a mother have sucked her dry--very metaphorical and interesting. I was challenged intellectually by my two to three hours at the Modern Art Museum. The French don't seem to censor anything, which is great for art. The vulgar and profane, the lofty and sublime, they are all here. The museum had many new exhibits from the last time I visited.